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title: "14 Living Self Quotes by 12 authors"
description: "Browse 14 Living Self quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Living Self sayings and thoughts."
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> [What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/what-i-mean-by-living-to-one-s-self-is-living-in-the-world-as-in-it/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [“Until we begin to live for people and stop living for self, we have not started living, we just exist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sunday-adelaja/until-we-begin-to-live-for-people-and-stop-living-for-self-we-have/)

[Sunday Adelaja](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sunday-adelaja/)

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> [Those who have passed away must be in a happier state than those living. How we have been so self-centered as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-dansky/those-who-have-passed-away-must-be-in-a-happier-state-than-those/)

[Martin Dansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-dansky/)

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> [The world is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/the-world-is-a-living-and-self-creating-mystery-of-which-i-am-myself/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

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> [“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence-2/the-living-self-has-one-purpose-only-to-come-into-its-own-fullness-of-2/)

[D.H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence-2/)

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> [ “Living for the Self \[the Soul\] is merit karma (you bind merit karma) and living for the worldly life is nothing but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dada-bhagwan/living-for-the-self-the-soul-is-merit-karma-you-bind-merit-karma-and/)

[Dada Bhagwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dada-bhagwan/)

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> [True living is not found in one's self or in things. It is found in Someone else, in the One who created…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-john-paul-ii/true-living-is-not-found-in-one-s-self-or-in-things-it-is-found-in/)

[Pope John Paul II](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-john-paul-ii/)

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> [The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-h-lawrence/the-living-self-has-one-purpose-only-to-come-into-its-own-fullness-of/)

[D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-h-lawrence/)

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> [“Most of the time our inner voice tries to guide us to ‘Truth’ but we, out of our own vested interests, wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kapil-kumar-bhaskar/most-of-the-time-our-inner-voice-tries-to-guide-us-to-truth-but-we/)

[Kapil Kumar Bhaskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kapil-kumar-bhaskar/)

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> [The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist…It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-merton/the-world-as-pure-object-is-something-that-is-not-there-it-is-not-a/)

[Thomas Merton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-merton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/857/thomas-merton-231_creating_the-world-as-pure-object-is-something-th_1698652.jpg)

> [“It is greatly understated to compare humans to an absorbent sponge, a glowing fuse; they are each an innumerable harmony, a living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-herder/it-is-greatly-understated-to-compare-humans-to-an-absorbent-sponge-a/)

[Johann Herder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-herder/)

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> [“that the greatest happiness lies in living for others. The self and its appetites, the satisfaction of which only yields deeper hungers,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-caputo/that-the-greatest-happiness-lies-in-living-for-others-the-self-and/)

[Philip Caputo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-caputo/)

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> [What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-hazlitt/what-i-mean-by-living-to-one-s-self-is-living-in-the-world-as-in-it-2/)

[William Hazlitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-hazlitt/)

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> [Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-merleau-ponty/being-established-in-my-life-buttressed-by-my-thinking-nature/)

[Maurice Merleau-Ponty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-merleau-ponty/)

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